Tom Knight

Tom Knight

Biography

Tom Knight spent most of his career in computer science and electrical engineering at MIT, before playing a major role in creating the field of synthetic biology. In 1996 he seeded interest in the field at DARPA, and built a molecular biology laboratory in the MIT computer science department. He developed standards for engineering biological systems, such as the Biobrick standard, first distributed in 2002. He was one of the founders of the IGEM competition, and remains on its board. In 2008, he co-founded Gingko Bioworks, where he now remains a full time researcher. His interests include minimal organisms, origins of life, and predictive models of biological systems.

About SB7.0

This year SB7.0 is brought to you by BioBricks Foundation and SynBioBeta and hosted by the National University of Singapore. The SB Conference Series (SBx.0 Conference) is the world’s foremost professional meeting in the field of synthetic biology.